Author: BURLEND, Rebecca
Title: A True Picture of Emigration
Description: Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. xxxi, 167pp, (1p ad). Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, two tissue-guarded illustrations, small foldout map. Very good. Spine quite faintly sunned; internally tight and near fine. Tight, handsome 34th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints. First of this edition of a noted chronicle of a British family's move to frontier illinois, first published anonymously in London in 1848 -- originally subtitled "Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; Being a Full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and Ultimate Success of an English Family Who Emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, Near Leeds, in the Year 1831. .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest


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